Know how having sex twice in a night may increase chances of pregnancy

Having a child is important for many couples and people keep trying different ways to conceive. But while medical help and other techniques in bed may aide pregnancy, simpler steps can also work wonders.

Scientists are now recommending having sex twice in one night for people trying to have a baby. The suggestion comes after findings that show how sperm is stronger and faster the second time a man ejaculates.

New research from North Middlesex Hospital suggests that having sex twice within an hour could triple a man’s chances of becoming a father. The study, which was recently presented at the European Health and Care Excellence, suggests that it’s the second time that could help another line appear on the pregnancy test.

The study involved 73 couples who were all undergoing intrauterine insemination, where the sperm is injected directly into the womb. Researchers found that when the men who produced two batches of sperm within an hour, the second batch resulted to pregnancy more than 20-percent of the time. That’s three times the success rate (6%) of pregnancy using this fertility technique!

“Though this is a relatively small study, we believe it is a big step forward and could make a major difference to pregnancy rates. It would be reasonable to assume the same effect would apply to men trying to conceive naturally,” says research leader Gulam Bahadur of North Middlesex Hospital. It should also be noted that the women who participated in the study also took certain medications to stimulate their fertility cycles.

This all comes with the caveat that ejaculating twice within an hour is not possible for every guy, so obviously this technique has its limitations.

A toddler’s vain attempt to wake up his dead mother on a railway platform in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur

A toddler’s vain attempt to wake up his dead mother from eternal sleep on a railway platform in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur on Wednesday presented the most poignant picture of the massive migrant tragedy unfolding across several states.

A video tweeted by Sanjay Yadav, an aide to RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, shows the child walking unsteadily up to his mother’s body, tugging at the blanket placed over her, and when failing to wake her up, covering his own head with it.

As the mother still lay still, he wobbles away from her, announcements continuing in the background about the arrival and departure of trains that would bring in tens of thousands of people in a rush to get away from hunger and hardship they face in large cities that could sustain them no more.

“This small child doesn’t know that the bed sheet with which he is playing is the shroud of his mother who has gone into eternal sleep. This mother died of hunger and thirst after being on a train for four days. Who is responsible for these deaths on trains? Shouldn’t the opposition ask uncomfortable questions?” tweeted Yadav.

However, police had a different story to tell.

Ramakant Upadhyay, the Dy SP of the Government Railway Police in Muzaffarpur, said the incident occurred on May 25 when the migrant woman was on way to Muzaffarpur from Ahmedabad by a Shramik Special train.

He told reporters the woman, who was accompanied by her sister and brother-in-law, had died on the Madhubani bound train.

“My sister-in-law died suddenly on the train. We did not face any problem getting food or water,” the officer said, quoting the deceased’s brother-in-law who he did not name.

He said on getting information, police brought down the body and sent it for postmortem.

Citing the brother-in-law of the deceased, Upadhyay said she was aged 35 years and was undergoing treatment for “some disease” for the last one year in Ahmedabad. “She was also mentally unstable,” he said.

When persistently queried about the cause of death, he said,”Only doctors can tell”.

A massive exodus of migrant workers is on in several parts of the country, unprecedented in magnitude since Partition.

The humanitarian crisis still unfolding on highways and railway platforms has shone light on disturbing tales of entire families walking hundreds of kilometres with little children on foot in a seemingly endless march to escape hunger.

People have been found travelling on trucks and in the hollow of concrete mixing plants, and in many cases, dying from hunger and exhaustion before reaching their destinations.